Calculated standard shapes not known to (shown by) the navigator

[Lupp]

I have some sheets with reusable content also containing user code.
A few of the routines insert a drawing shape (PolyPolygon, PolyLine) into the DrawPage of a sheet using calculated coordinates.
Interactively created shapes of these types are shown by the navigator and selectable this way. The shapes created by a macro are not.

• Reasons?
• Remedy?
• Way to introduce a new shape to the navigator explicitly by code?

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You are right, I should attach an example document.
calculatedShapesNotShownByNavigator.ods (18.7 KB)
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See also tdf#165527
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[mikekaganski]

Fun.

Copying it to Draw shows in in the Navigator. There, it’s shown as “Shape 1 (Polyline with 5 points)”.
Drawing a polygon in Calc, which shows in the Calc’s Navigator, and copying it into Draw shows it in Draw’s Navigator as “Polyline with 4 points” (no “Shape”). I can convert it to Curve, then back to Polygon - and it becomes “Shape 2 (Polyline with 4 points)”… and now I can copy it and paste to Calc, and it won’t appear there in Navigator…

[Lupp]

Yes. Lot of “fun”.
Do you think it makes sense to report a bug?

[mikekaganski]

Definitely!

[Zizi64]

Set the property .Name by your macro code (based on a passed parameter, or based on the number of the Drawing objects).
The named object will be appeared in the Navigator after the macro code create it.
Tested in LO 7.5.8

[Lupp]

Thanks!
Your cleverness is helpful once more.